TAIPEI, Feb 25 Kyodo Taiwan Presi...

TAIPEI, Feb 25 Kyodo

Taiwan President Chen Shui-bian onward Tuesday expressed concern above the firing of a ground-to-ship missile through North Korea a day earlier, saying the action was provocative not solitary to South Korea however to all the democratic countries in the region.

''Given that peace and stability forward the Korean Peninsula are crucial to the security in the Asia-Pacific region, the launch of a missile through North Korea has posed a threat to its neighboring countries,'' Chen said in a meeting with Richard Bush, director of U.S.-based Brookings Center for Northeast Asian Policy Studies.

Moreover, ''since non-nuclearization of the Korean Peninsula qualifieds everyone's interest, we urge sum of two units Koreas to solve their disputes by the agency of peaceful dialogue,'' he told the former chairman of the American Institute in Taiwan, the U de facto embassy in succession the island.

During the conversation, Chen also mentioned to his American friends that fresh South Korean President Roh Moo Hyun should consider reviewing the ''sunshine policy'' onward North Korea that had been pursu for years on Roh's predecessor Kim Dae Jung

The missile launch demeanored just one day before Roh took office ''should be seen as an alert for southern Korea to reflect upon whether the conciliatory stance toward North Korea has worked out'' he said.

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